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Alan's War
The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope
By Guibert, Emmanuel
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-59643-096-9
- Publisher
- First Second
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Reviewed on November 1, 2008
Gr 10-Up Cope was a paper delivery boy in California in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was bombed. A couple of years later, at 18, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and shipped off to Europe. In 1994, he met cartoonist Guibert and recounted his wartime experiences and what he'd thought of them during the intervening years. The resulting bookpublished in France a year after Cope's death in 1999puts readers nearly inside the skin of a young man who learns to deal with...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
